In the palace, the imperial car was heading in the direction of Zhongshu Province.

Far away, Kang Yide, the eunuch on duty beside Zhao Junsheng, saw a person standing on the side of the road waiting, he recognized this person, and reported to Zhao Junsheng in the imperial car: "Your Majesty, waiting for the lawsuit Si Zheng Wang Tanzhi is in front, it seems that there is something to report!" ”

This is the way to enter the palace, and Wang Tanzhi is one of the few people who can enter the palace directly without reporting the gold medal, so it is normal for him to appear here to meet him.

"Let him come up!" Zhao Junsheng commanded, he knew that Wang Tanzhi must have something important to report, otherwise ordinary trivial matters would not come.

The royal car stopped in front, and Kang Yide walked over and said to Wang Tanzhi: "Your Majesty has a decree, let Wang Sizheng ride with the royal car!" ”

It is a great honor to ride with the emperor, even if it is an important minister of the court, he may not have a chance in his life, Wang Tanzhi immediately bowed down: "Thank you, Lord Longen!" ”

"Wang Sizheng, hurry up, Your Majesty will go to Zhongshu Province to inspect government affairs!"

"No!" Wang Tanzhi agreed, and immediately got up and walked quickly onto the royal car.

The royal car continued to move forward, and Wang Tanzhi bowed down again on the royal car, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Okay, sit down, the car is shaking, don't fall!" Zhao Junsheng raised his hand.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng waited for him to get up and sit down, and asked, "It's early in the morning, are you in a hurry to see me?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has two things to report, the first is that last night, the official Handa who led people to kill the prince Wen He, and An Dashi, a wealthy Sogdian merchant who guarded thirteen people, died violently in Jin Wuwei's cell, according to our spies waiting for the lawsuit, the jailer who delivered food to An Dashi had helped An Dashi send a message to General Cao Jiao yesterday afternoon, Cao Jiao personally met this person, but our spies don't know what they said. At night, An Dashi died in the cell, and after an examination, he was poisoned to death! In less than half an hour, the jailer with a message to General Cao Da hanged himself in the squad room on duty! ”

"The waiting lawsuit has long noticed this An Dashi, he has dealings with many powerful people in Chang'an City, and he also has dealings with General Cao Da in secret, and the interaction between the two of them is unusual! After An Dashi's death last night, the minister suspected that An Dashi's death must be related to General Cao, but there was no evidence. Then the ministers sent spies to sneak into An Dashi's house and found a secret compartment from his study, and there was a record in the secret compartment, which was every record of his bribery of officials in the DPRK and China over the years, please look at it! ”

Zhao Junsheng took a thick folded book, opened it and looked at it one by one, and he looked at it for a long time.

At this time, the royal car stopped, and Kang Yide's voice came from outside: "Your Majesty, the book has been saved!" ”

Zhao Junsheng ignored it, closed his eyes and pondered.

A few minutes later, Kang Yide outside saw that there was no movement in the carriage, beat a drum in his heart, bowed down again, and saluted: "Your Majesty, Duke Liang, Duke Lu and several other important ministers of Zhongshu Province are waiting for Your Majesty to come!" ”

Zhao Junsheng's angry voice suddenly came from inside the carriage: "Let them wait!" ”

Liang Lian, Lu Xuan, Xu Yan and other ministers all changed their faces when they heard this voice, and they knelt down collectively as a reflex.

In the royal car, Zhao Junsheng closed the record list and said to Wang Tanzhi: "This list is up to you, and the news must not be spread!" Now, if you take this gold medal and mobilize two hundred Lin Wei to seal An Dashi's mansion, you must be in front of the other yamen, but all the written records related to this matter will be brought back, and the other property confiscated will be handled in accordance with the relevant regulations! And those servants, bring them back for interrogation first, and see if anyone knows what An Dashi did! ”

"Command!" Wang Tanzhi took the gold medal and received the will, and as soon as he got up, he remembered that there was still something to report.

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "You go to handle this matter first, and then enter the palace later to report to me the tension of investigating this matter and another thing that needs to be reported!" ”

"No!" Wang Tan got off the royal car and saluted the ministers who were kneeling on the ground, and then left quickly, but the ministers who were kneeling on the ground did not dare to raise their heads, and they did not even see who he was.

Zhao Junsheng knocked on the carriage, one eunuch stepped forward quickly and lifted the curtain, and the other eunuch put a stool next to the royal car for Zhao Junsheng to step on and get out of the carriage.

"Let's all be flat!" Zhao Junsheng walked into Zhongshu Province as he spoke, and the ministers and officials immediately got up and didn't care about the dust on their clothes, and followed quickly.

After Zhao Junsheng walked into the gate of Zhongshu Province, he said as he walked: "Liang Lian, Lu Xuan, Xu Yan and others stay, and the others go back to their posts to do things!" ”

Officials returned to their posts.

Accompanied by Liang Lian, Lu Xuan, and Xu Yan, Zhao Junsheng inspected each subordinate ministry and department of Zhongshu Province one by one.

From time to time, Zhao Junsheng asked some officials some questions, such as whether all official affairs were handled in accordance with the system and rules when handling official affairs, and whether some procedures were omitted.

There is no doubt that there are many people who do not follow the procedures and rules of the system.

During this inspection, Zhao Junsheng asked many officials many questions, such as asking them whether they had found corruption among people, whether there was cronyism, selling official positions, cultivating cronies, and so on.

Every time Zhao Junsheng asked a question, Liang Lian, Lu Xuan, and Xu Yan couldn't stop beating wildly in their hearts, could it be that the emperor doubted them and didn't trust them? This is not a good thing, losing the trust of the emperor, although there may not be a big disaster, but life will definitely be difficult.

The inspection process lasted for a whole hour, and finally Zhao Jun gathered everyone in the courtyard to give a lecture.

"The inspection of Zhongshu Province was decided by me on a temporary basis, and I did not notify you in advance, so this time it has the intention of a surprise attack, and the results of the inspection are also unexpected by me, so I am not very satisfied! First of all, the province has statutes and rules that must be in accordance with the procedures, many officials do not follow the system procedures and rules, if it is an unwritten rule, you can dispose of it as appropriate, but there are clear provisions, it must be carried out in accordance with the procedures, if someone ignores the rules and regulations, skips some procedures to act, the discoverer can report to the superior officer, if the superior official does not accept, you can continue to report to the next level, and you can even go directly to the palace of diligence to see me! ”

"Secondly, I have also heard some rumors that a certain minister has accepted bribes, cultivated cronies, and even sold official positions, making a mess of the official style of Zhongshu Province! A few chief officials, I hope you will keep your eyes open and take this kind of thing seriously, once someone reports to the Imperial Historical Tower, someone is impeached, and several chief officials are jointly and severally responsible for poor control! I also hope that the offender can turn back to the shore and take the initiative to surrender to the relevant yamen, or even to me, and I can consider commuting his sentence as appropriate! ”

The ministers are in a cold sweat, what does this mean? Is this the emperor dissatisfied with the entire Zhongshu Province? Or was it because of the bad behavior of a certain person that caused the emperor to resent the entire Zhongshu Province?

This is the first time that the emperor has openly and harshly criticized Zhongshu Province, and as for who he is talking about, everyone has different thoughts in their hearts.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Tanzhi entered the palace again to face the saint.

"Your Majesty, these records have been found out from An Dashi's home, and he is also in contact with some people in the army and some petty officials and officials in Jingzhao Mansion, Chang'an, and Wannian Counties! In addition, he bought some crossbows from the army through Cao Jiao's family, the number is not large, it should be used to protect himself, through verification, these twenty crossbows were eliminated when the army changed clothes, except for those seized by Jin Wuwei, the rest were all found in his home! ”

In addition to these, a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, coins, antiquities, and some valuable utensils worth more than 365,400 yuan were seized from An Dashi's home. and his deposit receipts in the Royal Bank, a total of 1,880,000 yuan. In addition, he has 136 shops and 28 mansions in Chang'an and other places, and his ministers have sent people to seal them up! ”

Zhao Junsheng took Wang Tanzhi's notebook, opened it and looked at it.

Not counting the real estate, only counting the valuable property in the family and the deposit of the royal bank, there are 2.2 million yuan, and the current coin of Daqian is about 1,200 yuan in later generations, which is about 2.64 billion, and if you count the real estate, shops, houses and goods, An Dashi's assets are only 200 billion!

"Okay, all the real estate, shops and goods after the seizure are auctioned and sold, half of them will be charged to the treasury according to the regulations, and half will be returned to the royal family, and you can find someone to handle the follow-up matters!"

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng asked: "In the morning, you said that there are two things to report, in addition to this one, what is the other one?" ”

Wang Tanzhi immediately bowed his hand and said: "These days, the spies waiting for the lawsuit found that someone frequently visited An Legong, and after investigation, he couldn't find any relevant news about this person, and then the lower official found someone to draw the person's appearance from a distance, and found that this person was disguised, and the painter became like this after removing the beard on his portrait!" ”

A piece of paper was taken out by Wang Tanzhi, Zhao Junsheng took it and looked at it, and asked, "Who is he?" ”

"Someone in the waiting lawsuit said that the person who contacted An Le Gong must be an old man from the previous dynasty, and someone reminded that Rouran didn't send a secret envoy to contact the former courtiers and the family to prepare to disrupt my big business? The minister wondered if this person was Feng Yu, so he found Feng Yu's subordinates and old acquaintances to identify him, and all the people who had seen the portrait said that it was him! ”

Although this Feng Yu was in Youzhou back then, Zhao Junsheng had never seen him, so he didn't know him, and when he heard that the person on the portrait was Feng Yu, his face changed: "Sure enough, it's a good calculation, secretly sneak to Chang'an to contact Tuoba Huang first, and then in the name of Tuoba Huang, contact the old people of the previous dynasty and instigate them to rebel, I have to say that Feng Huang's idea is still very effective!" ”

Wang Tanzhi asked: "Your Majesty, this investigation is a matter of the Imperial City Division, but it also involves the officials of the current dynasty, the duke, and may even involve some leading generals, which has the jurisdiction to wait for the lawsuit······

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "There is no conflict, the pending lawsuit and the Imperial City Division will handle the case independently, and they will only be responsible to me!" ”

"No!"